Originally Posted By cape cod joe 55-You are way over my head! Barrett-Jackson auctions? I'm glad I never officially got involved with Mensa as I would NEVER be able to cut my fingernails again (as in hanging on intellectually by my) with members like you around. one story---a client of mine came in maybe a year ago and FINANCED a 150K german car--?? not sure which one with a 100k 7 year loan! Now that's not smart as I could have tied up a couple mill worth of real estate for that. I'm sure you're not mailing in coupons every month to finance the cars
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Only 'finance' them if zero % interest -- then I will gladly use there money - have one of those ,it was for 36 months - almost done at least when you finance a house - the thought is the asset will appreciate - with an auto that is highly unlikely -- You shoud watch the Barrett-jackson auctions on speed channel -- I just sit there remembering..... my 1969 302DZ Z28 Camaro 1970 1/2 455 SD Trans Am 1969 Chevelle SS 396 etc...... some serious coinage now--
Originally Posted By vbdad55 still waiting for a response as to why both sides would run 'negative ads' if ALL people did't respond to them the same way - red / blue or purple state
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Those kind of questions 55, I've found, produce NO response or the usual red herring to obfuscate.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 It's why I left this section once before -- some refuse to believe that one can actually be a moderate without a 100% party affiliation across all topics -- It bothers me when I see any one party painted as saints and the other as sinners - regardless of which way that falls....truth is there is precious little difference between most power brokers in this country.
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Originally Posted By gadzuux >> ... still waiting for a response as to why both sides would run 'negative ads' if ALL people did't respond to them the same way << Okay, but it's really two questions - the one above and the one below ... >> If people didn't vote AGAINST candidates instead of for their own, neither side would bother to run negative ads now would they? << My reference to "dumb voters" isn't about voters who voted 'against kerry' rather than 'for bush'. It also doesn't refer to voters who are basing their votes on negative attack ads. At the time of the election, I freely and loudly proclaimed that I wasn't supporting kerry as much as voting for "anybody but bush". If a voter says they voted for bush because they didn't like kerry, fine - but that's not what they said. They said they were voting based on "moral issues", which is codespeak for gays and abortion. This set of priorities is so out of whack with reality that it's tantamount to saying "I voted for who I was told - nevermind the reasons". They were deftly manipulated into voting for bush based on emotional (and irrational) pandering to their religious beliefs. How can a voter not factor in the iraq war, the grossly irresponsible deficit spending, tax cuts for the wealthiest DURING the war and deficit spending, the corruption of multi-billion dollar "no-bid" contracts for bush's largest campaign contributors, and a whole laundry list of other grieveances when making their choice for president? These voters can. They just sweep all that aside and say "all I care about are morality issues" - as if morality doesn't isn't a factor within the bush white house. Or the 'morality' of painting your opponent as some potsmoking, draft dodging treasonous enemy of america, when in fact that's YOUR candidate and the opponent is a decorated military officer and bonafide war hero. It shouldn't have worked, but it did. And that's because you can fool some of the people all of the time - the dumb ones.
